Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu: “What does it really look like?”

The presentation of Kondo Sensei and his students was very impressive as they exhibited precise, energetic techniques that retained a variety of martial traits absent in modern aikido. In his demonstration, Kondo Sensei also described the historical connections between Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu and aikido and how aikido was influenced by the techniques of Sokaku Takeda…